Chapter 18.28 — MHP MOBILE HOME PARK RESIDENTIAL ZONE

The mobile home park residential zone is designated to provide for the accommodation of residential mobile homes at a standard consistent with the protection of the health, safety and welfare of the community. Such zone is herein deemed to be multiple family residential zone. (Ord. 1719 § 1, 2010)

See Section 18.06.040 . (Ord. 1719 § 1, 2010)

In the MHP zone, the following accessory uses are permitted:

Incidental uses related to the convenience needs of the mobile home zone residents; provided, however, that such uses shall not include commercial or other nonresidential facilities for use by persons not residing within the zone.

(Ord. 1719 § 1, 2010)

In the MHP zone, the following standards of development shall apply:

• A. Building Height. No building or structure erected in this zone shall have a height greater than two and onehalf stories, not to exceed thirty-five feet.

• B. Front Yard. Each MHP zone mobile home park which abuts a dedicated street shall have a front yard of not less than twenty-five feet extending for the full width of the mobile home park. Such yard shall be landscaped and maintained with evergreen materials.

• C. Side Yard. Each MHP zone mobile home park shall have a side yard on both sides of the mobile home park of not less than five feet, except for corner and reversed corner lots, in which case the side yard on the street side shall be not less than ten feet.

• D. Rear Yard. Each mobile home park shall have a rear yard extending across the full width of the mobile home park of not less than five feet.

• E. Area Requirements.

  1. A mobile home park residential zone shall be not less than five acres in size.

  2. Each mobile home space shall have a minimum area of one thousand five hundred square feet. Mobile home parks existing on the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section which provide spaces having less than this requirement in the existing spaces may continue to operate, but no additions or alterations affecting more than twenty-five percent of the park area will be permitted unless the space requirements herein provided are complied with.

  3. Each mobile home space shall be not less than thirty feet in width, nor less than thirty feet in depth.

  4. There shall be a minimum of three thousand three hundred fifty square feet of gross area for each dwelling in a mobile home park. In computing the gross area, access, landscaped area, mobile home parking, automobile parking, out-building space, recreational areas and other similar uses may be included.

• F. Usable Yard Area. None.

• G. Parking and Loading. See Chapter 18.14 , Off-Street Parking Requirements. (Ord. 1719 § 1, 2010)

In the MHP zone, the following special development standards shall apply:

• A. Distance Between Buildings and Mobile Home Units. Comply with the requirements of Title 25, Article 7 of the California Code of Regulations .

• B. Walls and Fences.

  1. A mobile home park shall be entirely enclosed with a six-foot high solid masonry wall or other fencing as approved by the director of community development. No such wall or fence in the required street front setback area shall exceed three feet in height.

  2. No fence or wall over six feet in height shall be located in a MHP zone.

• C. Signs. Signs conforming to Chapter 18.23 shall be permitted in the MHP zone, which advertise the mobile home park.

• D. Design Review. Before the planning commission or the city council may approve the location of any residential mobile home park and before any buildings for mobile home park purposes are erected, the applicant for such use shall submit the project for design review per the requirements of Chapter 18.68 .

• E. Miscellaneous.

  1. Mobile homes, either without toilet facilities or with toilet facilities that cannot be connected to a sanitary sewer line shall not be permitted in the MHP zone.

  2. Accessory buildings, cabanas, and other structures constructed as a permanent part of a mobile home shall comply with the requirements of Title 25, Article 9 of the California Code of Regulations .

  3. All utilities required for service to structures shall be placed underground.

  4. Each mobile home park shall be connected to a sanitary sewer. Each mobile home space shall be provided a connection to such sanitary sewer.

• (Ord. 1719 § 1, 2010: Ord. 1852, 12/4/2023)